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i was looking in the help on the /write command and came up with

/write nicks.txt text to be written

and by using the -l switch and a # i can write to a certain line but what i want to do is actually add a new line at the bottom moving the last line down one ? any ideas

a example
nicks.txt

nick1
nick2
nick3
nick4
nick5

i want to write the new line to line 5 and at the same time move line 5 to line 6

thx in advance

write -il5 nicks.txt new text for line 5

ok yep i see that is thier now i was interpreting it wrong in the help file but now i have another problem it doesnt seem to work if i want to write to line #66 and i am trying to set a
%var to equal that value is that possible here is what i have


i also tryed just using /write-il%jj without the $+
but it didnt work either

thx in advance

write $+(-il,$calc($lines(nicks.txt) - 1)) nicks.txt $me

hmm that still doesnt write to the file i am using mirc5.91 and the nicks.txt is in the main mirc folder is there something else i am missing ?

That command works for me. It adds my nick to the second to the last line (which is what the $calc() does for you). If you mean that it doesn't write to the line before the last line, omit the $calc( - 1) and just use

write $+(-il,$lines(nicks.txt)) nicks.txt $me

nope i mean it isnt writing to the file at all ? is the problem from calling it from an alias ? by typing /w i am trying to get it to write to the second to last line in the file but nothing at all happens ? also is the full path required like c:\mirc\nicks.txt ?
thx again for the help

if i change it to a popup file it will write to the file but it writes to the third to last line rather than the second which is not a problem really but will it work from an alias instead ?

Try changing the name of the alias from /w to /ww .. you might have another /w alias that's conflicting. The command itself obviously works since it works from a popup (and from the command line, since I typed it to test it).

ahhh doh thats why /w is allready used in the alias file also one last question will the changes to the file be saved after each time you write to it ?
thx

Yup. That's kind of the point of /write. :tongue: